DPM -> Firestreamer -> third party backup to tape
Posted: 13 Dec 2011, 18:37
Hello, we are considering use of Firestreamer in our company. The scenario is following:
DPM 2010 - dedicated physical server, short term backup to local disks, weekly backup to disk array connected through FC.
The problem is, we need to expose our weekly backup ideally to a standalone closed file (ie virtual tape file unloaded from virutal library) on NTFS disk to get it to physical tape (our company uses another tool than DPM to backup data to tape). This is not possible using DPM only, as the short term disk backup partitions are constantly changing.
So here are my questions:
1) Does tape need to be unloaded from firestreamer using the GUI to be backed up, or can I just back up the virtual tape file once it is not used by DPM (and then possibly "insert" this backed up file to newly created firestreamer library in the worst case of disaster recovery)?
2) if the virtual tape needs to be manually unloaded first - can the loading/unloading of tapes be automated in any way?
DPM 2010 - dedicated physical server, short term backup to local disks, weekly backup to disk array connected through FC.
The problem is, we need to expose our weekly backup ideally to a standalone closed file (ie virtual tape file unloaded from virutal library) on NTFS disk to get it to physical tape (our company uses another tool than DPM to backup data to tape). This is not possible using DPM only, as the short term disk backup partitions are constantly changing.
So here are my questions:
1) Does tape need to be unloaded from firestreamer using the GUI to be backed up, or can I just back up the virtual tape file once it is not used by DPM (and then possibly "insert" this backed up file to newly created firestreamer library in the worst case of disaster recovery)?
2) if the virtual tape needs to be manually unloaded first - can the loading/unloading of tapes be automated in any way?